I'm updating plugins installed on my wordpress site. However, for almost an hour, it's still doing maintenance mode. When I accidentally hit reload, I got BIG white screen of death saying: "Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute."

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As part of the automatic upgrade
WordPress places a file named
.maintenance in the blog base
folder (folder that contains the
wp-admin folder). If that file exists,
then vistors will see the message
Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.

To stop that message from being
displayed to vistors, just delete the
.maintenance file. The automatic
upgrade should be executed again, just
in case it failed.